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Date:      Fri, 9 Mar 2018 09:36:40 -0500
From:      Tycho Nightingale <tychon@freebsd.org>
To:        Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Kubilay Kocak <koobs@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Security Team <secteam@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r328011 - in head/sys/amd64/vmm: amd intel
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> On Mar 9, 2018, at 9:26 AM, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> wrote:
>=20
> On 8 March 2018 at 21:57, Kubilay Kocak <koobs@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On 9/03/2018 8:57 am, Ed Maste wrote:
>>> On 15 January 2018 at 13:37, Tycho Nightingale <tychon@freebsd.org> =
wrote:
>>>> Author: tychon
>>>> Date: Mon Jan 15 18:37:03 2018
>>>> New Revision: 328011
>>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/328011
>>>>=20
>>>> Log:
>>>>  Provide some mitigation against CVE-2017-5715 by clearing =
registers
>>>>  upon returning from the guest which aren't immediately clobbered =
by
>>>>  the host.  This eradicates any remaining guest contents limiting =
their
>>>>  usefulness in an exploit gadget.
>>>=20
>>> Will you MFC this to stable/11?
>>=20
>> Mitigations and related MFC's and SA's, etc for vulnerabilities, are
>> presumably all being coordinated and handled by secteam, with =
associated
>> (explicit) messaging when fixes don't apply to particular
>> branches/versions, no?
>=20
> Embargoed patches to address specific security vulnerabilities are
> handled by secteam, and are committed to all branches simultaneously.
>=20
> For cases like this, where it's a mitigation or other improvement that
> is already committed to CURRENT, it's best if the domain expert /
> original committer handles the merge. That said, I'm happy to take
> care of the merge if desired.

No worries, I will merge this and r329162 too.

Tycho




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